#Explanation of Review

[ragnar7283]

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[fisheito]

this vision descended upon me while riding the bus

[magical-awesome-kid]

That moment when you use your Master’s Degree in Cell and Molecular Biology and your peer-reviewed knowledge of cancer and blood biology to write out a highly accurate reason for Anime Logic…

[bull-shit-suji]

actually no i need to talk about the green witch arc. ciel and his band of merry fools go to germany and learn that this forest is haunted by WEREWOLVES and in it is a village full of WITCHES with cursed amulets and potions and whatever

and the immediate vibe is "lol what a bunch of bogus" which is really just batshit coming from the kid with a demon butler

and then woah big reveal! it wasn't werewolves or witches it was a covert military operation REPLETE with radar tracking (not a thing until wwii) and electronic displays (most likely crt screens, which again weren't fully developed until the 1930s) and TANKS. for reference the first "tank" was put together by a guy in 1899 who mounted a machine gun to THIS

absolute paragon of engineering. the panzer (the exact model of tank in the arc) was not a thing until wwi.

and. and ciel and ESPECIALLY the Demon Butler in question are like. ohhhh yeah that makes more sense. the amulets were just transmitting our exact locations through technology that won't exist for another three decades. whew glad we sorted that one out. man wouldn't it have been CRAZY if it really was werewolves.

[nataliescatorcciolvr]

[hplonesomeart]

This is photos of my sketchbook doodle collection—not to be confused with the random doodles I do in class using lined paper. These are all conjured at home during my down/free time sometimes really late at night or the afternoon. I don’t take my sketchbook places as much as I used to, but that’s probably because it’s so personal to me (plus hefting sketchbooks around when my schoolload was already packed became inconvenient back in high school. I’m not planning on reliving those days in college lol. It’s quicker to animate or digital sketch)

[mgu-h]

Lando Review 164/? • Feb 2023 • Lessons with Tom Daley

[mxtxfanatic]

The more I get into this translation and am able to read other works, the more I fear that the “plain language” of cnovels are actually a manmade problem and a self-fulfilling prophecy. Some translators, for whatever reason, flattened out the metaphors and imagery in the works they translated, those translations became popular and widely spread, people began to acclimate to this way of writing as “just the way cnovels are,” other translators internalizing this idea pick up other cnovels to work on, rinse and repeat. Cause there’s no way tgcf is this colorful and yet only a trickle of that shines through into English.

[ask-the-druggieverse]

Dreams the only sane one thank god 🙏🙏 everyone slaying tho

Anyway- Where/how is Cross doin 👀

- ALT - BILL: HA! HA! HA! BILL: He's doing bury nice! BILL: Don't worry about him at all! BILL: He's having a grave time with his AU!!

- IDK - Two things, for those who figured it out (not saying what happened, you must think!!!), I planned this WAYYY before Jakei made her trans-coded cross announcement and I felt super bad about it considering what happens. And the other thing is I decided to use that announcement to research some sad stuff about what trans, enby, agender, etc people go through in other places besides my own (my town is sorta safe for non cis people) and decided to implement those onto this AU Cross (my other AU SOPV, Cross is living his best life)

For future TW's when we get to Cross/The past: Body(Or gender Or Identity) Dysphoria, Abuse of drugs(I mean... who isn't in this blog?), and Bill(Also, someone just asked about Bill and hoo boy.... Bill is NOT a nice person in this AU(i will go more in depth on that ask than in my pinned) (I mean, sense when was Bill ever nice?))

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[vonlipvig]

black mirror season 7 episode 2, bête noire...

hmm, well.

didn't love this one, tbh. it was a fun little horror, don't get me wrong, but it felt a bit too fantastical, even for the more out-there black mirror episodes. sure, her reality-altering powers actually did end up having a "reasonable" explanation, but it just didn't feel that believable to me as a whole.

i feel like if they had just kept the story to be that she could alter all things electronic, like modify her emails, or the camera feeds, they could have played into fears of misinformation and generative AI? like verity could have just developed really advanced AI tech and used it against maria to fool everyone else? that would have been much more effective for me, instead of super genius invents reality shifting technology and becomes god. but oh well.

still enjoyable, though (if being driven mad by that white demon could be called enjoyable lmao), but nowhere near my favs.

[harocat]

I haven’t even seen this movie yet, but I feel like maybe blaming it on your ‘western sensibilities, and it being too Chinese’ or whatever when every other English language review of it on rotten tomatoes has been positive just makes you look like a dumb ass??

[communistkenobi]

i’d love to get your take on the physical geography/human geography “divide”. we spent a lot of time debating the merits of having both in my first year phd course and in my opinion as a physical geographer the opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration far outweigh any of the issues with housing physical and social scientists together

my familiarity with this debate primarily comes from the academic discourse around the concept of the “Anthropocene” (ie the period in Earth’s history where human beings have made a measurable, global impact on the environment, almost always spoken about in the context of climate change). The way I’ve seen this term used is to argue that the period of the Anthropocene is collapsing the physical/human geography divide, that even if we could separate these disciplines in the past, we can no longer partition the environmental from the social.

I’m partial to critical interventions in this discourse (which is how I will answer your question) - that the ‘human impact’ we’re talking about is actually a function of colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism, not some abstract universal ‘human impact’. Modern human beings have existed on Earth for nearly two hundred thousand years, and human-made climate change has only occurred in roughly the last two centuries - a microscopic timeframe when talking about Earth’s climate. People in the Global South, in imperialized countries, and indigenous and Black peoples in settler colonies are not the classes who produce industrial levels of carbon emissions or wreak industrial-scale environmental devastation - that is the ruling class & the imperial states of the world. Hoelle & Kawa (2021) argue in Placing the Anthropos in Anthropocene that we should call it the plantationocene or capitalocene, because human-made climate change is a function of specific historical and material processes, not some generalized, ahistorical "human impact." Likewise, "human impact" is an imprecise and colonial definition of human involvement with the environment, which dismisses Indigenous peoples' complex and highly sophisticated relationships with what are understood by the Western world to be "pristine environs" (arising from the doctrine of terra nullius, or empty land, which justified colonial expansion into the American continent because there was "no civilization there") such as the Amazon Rainforest, which should be understood as a human-made ecological system the same way we understand farmlands to be human-made (see Roosevelt's 2014 The Amazon and the Anthropocene: 13,000 Years of Human Influence in a Tropical Rainforest).

therefore I think it's productive to think of the divide between the physical and the human geographies as a colonial framework, or at least one that is deeply implicated in colonial thinking - it positions the environment as an ‘object’ terrain that ‘subjects’ are situated on top of, as opposed to understanding human beings as part of nature. This is part of the logic that relegates Indigenous people to the status of animals ("savages"), as "part of" nature, while human 'subjects', ie white bourgeois Europeans, are separated from nature (see Quijano's 2000 Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America). This type of thinking is attributed to climate change-denialism in fascist circles (see Acker's 2020 What Could Carbofascism Look Like?), whose denialism is premised on a settler colonial understanding of the environment as a resource to be dominated and extracted from - the environment has no agency in this framework, no ability to react to the violence of colonial extraction, it is a purely inert economic resource. Likewise, this psychical/human divide obfuscates the fact that historical processes like colonialism are also environmental processes. In North America, the genocides of indigenous peoples carried out by European settlers over the past five centuries have been so monumental that the resulting reduction in carbon dioxide output by human bodies is measurable in the geological record (see Hoelle & Kawa again). The environmental devastation of silver mining in South America led by Spanish colonizers, and the resulting misery inflicted on colonized peoples forced to conduct this mining (see Galeano's 1971 The Open Veins of Latin America) was foundational to the forming of the modern Spanish nation-state, who imported so much stolen silver into Europe that they crashed their own economy (see chapter 3 of Perry Anderson’s 1974 Lineages of the Absolutist State).

Likewise, efforts at environmental protections from Indigenous nations has resulted in unique advancements in the law, such as enshrining legal personhood on rivers, as was the case with the Whanganui River in Aotearoa (see Brierly et al's 2018 A geomorphic perspective on the rights of the river in Aotearoa New Zealand), or the forsaking of sovereign mining rights by the state in order to protect indigenous land claims for environmental protection, as was the case in Ecuador (see Gümplova's 2019 Yasuní ITT Initiative and the reinventing of sovereignty over natural resources). These are social, political, and legal efforts at environmental protection, done with an eye towards decolonization (or at the very least, decolonial policy regimes), and separating the environmental from the social in trying to understand this subject would be absurd.

And so the question of discipline specificity is obviously bound up in these debates, and the academic production of environmental scientists on the one hand and geographic social scientists on the other is part of the maintenance of that divide. Environmental protection policy requires specialised knowledge of the environments being protected, and that specialised knowledge likewise requires expertise in how state policy functions. And it has required decades and centuries of resistance and legal challenges for Indigenous people to be involved in these respective sites of knowledge production - all of this is bound up in debates about if we should keep the physical and human geographies separated. I think the example of medical doctors talking about “shit life syndrome” (ie the medical problems faced by people as a result of poverty and inequality) speaks to a consequence of the debates around disciplinary divides - most medical doctors are not social policy experts, it’s not their job to write legislation or policy programs, their job is to provide medical services to people, but they are nonetheless identifying in their supposedly separate discipline of medicine and human biology the harmful social outputs of capitalist societies, which is intense systemic poverty

[awesomebutunpractical]

Look, I stand by my view that there's an element of being a good sport when suspending your disbelief. If you're going to hold a story to realistic conventions that it never claimed it was going to follow, you're kind of being a sourpuss.

[skellebonez]

"The story is bad because not everything was fully explained."

Sometimes. Stories are better if you don't answer every question because thinking about what it could mean afterward is half the fun.

Yeah, it's bad when something like a mystery doesn't explain key elements. But if you're looking at like... a Lovecraftian inspired story and going "but it didn't explain everything"?

You have severely misunderstood half the appeal of the genre you are looking at.

[mean-scarlet-deceiver]

IMO "Old Reliable Edward" is a 1000% improvement on "Edward the Really Useful Engine"

but that's still not the same thing as being actually good (TO ME)

[oveliagirlhaditright]

Long overdue: my thoughts on the final book in Kendare Blake's "In Every Generation" series titled: "Against the Darkness."

Now, for some reason I think I'm going to start off with some of the things I didn't like about the book first (which is maybe a weird way to do a review--especially for a book and series I do genuinely like--but trust me when I say I did enjoy this book). We'll get to the good parts down below. But we all know finales are always hard and don't always completely stick the landing: I just expect that at this point. But even with that, I standby that this is my favorite Buffyverse continuation, yeah. I'm also really hoping Kendare Blake somehow gets contacted to help with the Buffy TV show reboot coming up, though I know it won't happen.

...

Okay, one complaint I kind of have is that I feel all of our heroes get handed the Idiot Ball at least at one point in this book--and they've gotten extremely bad at communicating with each other--but though I said that it's a complaint... I'm actually not bothered by it that much. Like our Scoobies of old, our new Scoobies are high school students, after all, so they're not always going to be making the best decisions. And there are reasons as to why some of the characters might be choosing to be keeping secrets from one another. And with the stakes higher than they ever have been before, it probably makes sense why everyone is super emotional and probably not one-hundred percent thinking clearly. That being said, it is kind of sad seeing them like this when you compare them to their past books' selves.

2. At first as I was reading the series, I was getting really excited about the idea that Willow was clearly going to go Dark again at some point... But then I read this one fanfiction criticizing Buffy season 8 having Willow go Dark again in that world's future, since season 7's ending seemed to indicate that Willow found a perfect balance with her magic and surely never would again: maybe was even incapable of it? And while I think why Willow in the Dark Horse comics going Dark is justified (though this fic author didn't know that at the time, because this fanfiction was written just when season 8 had come out, and the reason as to why Willow went Dark isn't revealed until season 12), I do largely agree with them. So then a part of me found myself wishing that maybe there wasn't going to be a plot about Willow going Dark in this book series, and that maybe it did break canon some... But that being said, I did definitely enjoy it when it did happen. And the build-up to it was expertly done throughout these novels. And no matter what, it's always fun to see Dark Willow again.

3. One thing I liked that Kendare Blake had done in one of the previous books, was having Spike mention that he and Buffy had never gotten together--or had a relationship together (I forget the exact wording)--after their previous one in season six/after he'd tried to rape her and that sort of thing. And I'll admit that I'm someone who has come to hate Spike as a character now (something I don't want to be doing, and am actively trying not to do--as I used to love his character: and he used to me my preferred person for Buffy, if you can believe it). But I admired that Kendare Blake did this because, if I'm being honest, even with Spike going to get a soul after the attempted rape to try and make things right... I now don't think there should have been any shipping of Spike and Buffy after that fact: it sends a bad message, in my mind. So, yeah: I liked that Kendare Blake had written that it seemed Spike and Buffy hadn't had any sort of (romantic and/or sexual) relationship after that.

But in this book, after Buffy is rescued, it's sort of left up to the reader if Spike and Buffy kissed or not. The new Scoobies are trying to guess if they did. And I think it's Buffy who says, "What happens between my and Spike's lips is between me and Spike alone." Also, at the end of the novel, Buffy is taking Frankie (our main character Slayer) with her for some training, and Spike (who is Frankie's Watcher) is thinking of staying behind, in believing Frankie now doesn't need him anymore. Buffy quickly corrects Spike that he's being an idiot--and that of course Frankie still needs him. She still needed her own Watcher well into her twenties, after all, and she tells him to come with them. And it's also hinted at that maybe something could happen between the two of them if he does. Or perhaps not. I'll admit that I'm not the biggest fan of us now getting this up in the air stuff with Spuffy, when I'd thought that Kendare Blake had made a poignant choice in having had nothing happen between them before. But also the fact that it's up in the air means that I can take it (since I can choose to decide nothing happens with them, if I want). I'm glad that it's nothing concrete.

4. I'd prepared myself for a long while that Angel wasn't going to appear in this series--I prepared myself for the worst, actually, after "Buffy: The Last Vampire Slayer"--and I was right that Angel is not in these novels (side note: I have the strangest feeling now that Disney owns the Buffyverse, ugh, they just... don't like Angel--for some reasons I could maybe understand. But Spike also has issues, if we're being honest, and it seems they're maybe Draco in Leather Pantsing him?--and are trying to keep him out of things, but I could be wrong), but I'm glad about the Angel references we do get throughout the series. Also that Frankie and Grim are somewhat Bangel 2.0. But no: I'm mostly glad of the Angel references we get in this book, and that while he's not here, it's not a "Buffy: The Last Vampire Slayer" situation, thank God! Buffy clearly still has feelings for Angel, too (not just Spike), and she even teases Spike when asking him to come with her at the end, that on their journey they'll "stop in L.A., because Angel's always good for some training." LOL. I'm just going to headcanon that Angel, while not joining the Scoobies in trying to save Buffy, was trying to do so by himself, like we find out Giles apparently was doing in the background of a majority of these books. Or something big was going on for him again, and he had no idea what happened to Buffy, and he's going to be miffed when he finds out and that no one told him: like something similar to when he was in Pylea during Buffy's death in season 5.

5. While I was always going to prefer for Willow to end up with Oz in this series (it somewhat hurts that we got teased with it, only for it to be taken away. But oh well. Their beautiful friendship in this still means the world to me, too), I do like Safarina DeWitt. And she and Willow are cute together... Though I do think it moved to love pretty fast (even in knowing they had a past relationship with each other). One minute it seems like Willow is falling for her again, and maybe entertaining the idea of things with Safarina once more, and then she's thinking that she wishes Buffy were there to talk to, because she thinks she might be in love with Safarina--all while Safarina isn't even there at the moment, because she's gone on a long mission with Vi. What?

6. I don't know if I'm the biggest fan of some of the stuff that happened with the Slayer power in this overall series, but it's whatever.

7. This isn't truly a complaint, just a slight disappointment (but one I can live with): I'd kind of hoped that this book would somehow reveal that Faith hadn't actually died like we'd earlier been led to believe, but no dice:( But oh well, I guess:( Buffy died a number of times. I guess it's time we finally got a story where Faith did. At least our girl went out heroically -sobs-

I think that's most of the bad that I can think of: Onto the good!

I already made a post about this, so I'm basically going to copy it here: "It's so nice it is that this is probably one of the few things that exists that treats Kennedy well (Vi actually turns evil for a bit in this series, which is surprising because I’ve never seen anyone give Vi that kind of treatment [especially over Kennedy]. But she turns it around in the end).

You’d probably say, 'Of course it has to treat Kennedy well. It’s an officially licensed thing.' But so was 'Chosen' by Kiersten White. And that book had Buffy calling Kennedy a bitch in it:(

Even though Willow and Kennedy have broken up by the time this series is taking place, Kennedy still calls Willow 'goddess.' It’s cute. And Kennedy is quite the badass."

2. Frankie is so freaking wonderful. She's the heartbeat of this series, as she should be, and I love my little Willow-Buffy-Usagi Tsukino Slayer with my whole heart (she's one of the best Slayers post-season 7 that we've ever gotten, hands-down. Maybe even the best. And I hope the new Slayer we get in the Buffy reboot series is even a fraction like her). But one thing I loved about Frankie in this book, was that we really see her Slayer intuition shining through when it comes to the villain, Aspen. Aspen really starts wrapping everyone around her little finger (and she even had me fooled some, which is a testament to Blake's writing. And the fact that Aspen is a good villain who isn't one-dimensional. As some of that stuff with her, like her friendship with Hailey, was real). But Frankie saw right through her, ala how Buffy would have, and I was proud of her for it. Though the tension that Frankie's hatred for Aspen created between her and Hailey was hella interesting!

3. Speaking of Hailey, I love my badass Potential Slayer SO much (and I missed her when she couldn't be with her Scoobies--though her scenes with Aspen when she was being a double-agent were intriguing). And the fact that she's actually more talented than Frankie is is interesting. Her whole story in this book is interesting. I was always big on Hailey, but I don't think I took a shining to her this much until this book. Her and Vi (her older sister) get to be part of the Slayer line together! But I adored when Hailey told Vi something like, "I guess the Slayer line wanted me, too." And Vi frowned and said, "The Slayer line's greedy." Hailey reminds me a lot of Isabelle Lightwood from "The Mortal Instruments" series.

4. Truthfully, I think that this is the first time that I actually enjoyed Sigmund as a character and wanted him and Hailey together. The way he was actually such a good friend to her in this novel, when she couldn't go to the Scoobies without blowing their cover? And how he kept her secret about being a Potential for her when she didn't want anyone to know about it? -applauds- And it was clever on Blake's part that since Sigmund, who is a demon, is supposed to marry a demon (which is why he and Hailey had to break-up), she had Hailey become a Potential Slayer in this book... which is part-demon, you know;)

5. While I somewhat enjoyed our werewolf Jake as a character before, and his relationship with his uncle Oz, I don't think I fully appreciated him until this book, either (also, his boyfriend is the sweetest). He fucks up terribly (because of Jordy pretty much wanting him to, no less--he wanted him to not "completely muzzle the wolf, but rather be more wolf": paraphrasing here). But the way he recovers from that, and handles his newly made pack that he created, made me truly appreciate him.

The Scoobies all coming together to fight a super-powered Aspen (when they really had no chance), with all the Slayer strength she'd stolen, also made me care for them all the more.

6. I did like Grimloch and Frankie as a couple quite a bit. But, yeah: they did need to breakup as they did in this novel, since they were mostly lust above all else. Edit: Frankie liked Grim, but she wasn't in love with him yet. And Grim thought he shouldn't be her first love--and even Frankie had to agree--so they broke up. But I did enjoy how Frankie said something like, "You may not be my first love, but could you be my fifteenth?" And Grimloch replies, "I may be your last love." That was sweet. So there's hope for them in the future, then, and that they could perhaps even end up together someday.

7. Using Buffy's cross necklace that she got from Joyce (this idea that Joyce gave her a cross necklace is monumental and I need a fic about it, STAT!) to be the thing to bring her back was just such a great idea. And seeing her and the Slayers finally get to return and kick Aspen's ass in an epic battle, after she'd imprisoned them for so long, was everything.

8. Giles! How could I forget Giles?! I actually sort of knew beforehand what characters were going to appear in this series, because of an interview of Kendare Blake's that I watched. She, however, did not mention Giles in said interview. And it was such a pleasant surprise to have him show up right when the shit had hit the fan. And she wrote him so well. Giles and Spike's interactions, in particular, were hilarious.

9. I said above that I don't really like Spike as a character anymore. But Kendare Blake's writing is some of the exception to that rule: she reminds me of why I loved him to begin with--she writes him in-character, I believe, and so funnily. And she shows him as a true hero and father figure to Frankie, while still having flaws and being Spike (like in being a drama queen and being a bit of a child). It's a lot of fun, really.

10. I kind of mentioned this above, but Oz is everything right in this world--as he always has been--and his relationship with Willow, Jake, the other kids like Frankie, and Spike is really something to write home about.

11. Willow and Frankie's relationship mother-daughter relationship in this series is something I'll never get over from this series. It's just so beautiful.

I think that's mostly everything. I'm very glad Kendare Blake was the one who got the commission for this series, and I'll always remember it and surely return to it soon. And I very much thank her for writing it.

Shutting up now.

Edit: I forgot to mention that finally getting to see Frankie and Buffy interact at the end of this was everything.